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<A NAME="tag">
<B>tag</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>tagged,</B> <B>tagging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a card or small piece of paper, leather, or other material, to be tied or fastened to something, especially as a label. <BR> <I>Ex. Each coat in the store has a tag with the price on it.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a small hanging piece; loosely attached piece; loose end; tatter. <BR> <I>Ex. Mother cut all the tags off the old frayed rug.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a tab or loop by which a coat is hung up. <DD><B> 4. </B>a metal point on the end of a shoelace or string, to make it pass easily through eyelets. <DD><B> 5. </B>a quotation, moral, or other phrase added for ornament or emphasis. <DD><B> 6. </B>the last words of an actor's speech, or the last lines of a play. <DD><B> 7. </B>the last lines of a song. <DD><B> 8. </B>(Figurative.) the end of anything, especially a flourish added to a letter. <DD><B> 9. </B>the tip of an animal's tail, especially when distinct in color. <DD><B> 10. </B>a small piece of bright material such as tinsel, wrapped around the shank of a fishhook near the tail of an artificial fly. <DD><B> 11. </B>a matted lock of wool on a sheep; tag-lock. <DD><B> 12. </B>a radioactive tracer. <BR> <I>Ex. Carbon 14 is used as a "tracer" or "tag" in research or industrial processes (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 13. </B>a unit of information used in computer programming to identify or label other information. <BR> <I>Ex. Along with the bits making up each word would be stored "tag" bits giving some information about the word (New Scientist).</I> <DD><B> 14. </B>(Obsolete.) the mob. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to add for ornament or emphasis. <DD><B> 2. </B>to furnish (a speech or composition) with tags, such as quotations. <DD><B> 3. </B>to add on as an afterthought; fasten or tack on. <BR> <I>Ex. to tag a moral to a story.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to mark, label, or identify with a tag or tags. <BR> <I>Ex. All his suitcases and trunks are tagged with his name and address. A carbon atom can be tagged ... by substituting the deuterium isotope for one or more of the associated hydrogen atoms (Harold C. Urey).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Informal.) to follow closely. <BR> <I>Ex. The dog tagged them all the way home.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to cut off tags from (a sheep). <DD><I>v.i. </I> to trail along; follow. <BR> <I>Ex. The younger children tagged after the older ones. We didn't invite him to go with us but he tagged along anyway.</I> noun <B>tagger.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tag">
<B>tag</B> (2), noun, verb, <B>tagged,</B> <B>tagging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a children's game in which one child who is "it" chases the others until he touches one. The one touched is then "it" and must chase the others. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Baseball.) the act of touching a base runner with the ball, or a base with the foot while holding the ball, to make a putout. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to touch or tap with the hand. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Baseball.) <DD><B> a. </B>to touch (a base runner) with the ball to make a putout. <BR> <I>Ex. The runner was caught off base and tagged out.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to touch (a base) with the foot while holding the ball to make a putout. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>tag up,</B> (Baseball.) to stay on, or return to stay on, the base occupied until after a fly ball is caught, before advancing to the next base. <BR> <I>Ex. Edwin had no little trouble understanding why a base runner must tag up before running if a fly ball is caught (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tagal">
<B>Tagal, </B>noun. <B>=Tagalog.</B></DL>
<A NAME="tagala">
<B>Tagala, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having to do with Tagalog, the branch of the Austronesian linguistic family that includes the languages of the Philippines. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with Tagalog, the chief language of the Philippines. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=Tagalog.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tagalog">
<B>Tagalog, </B>noun, pl. <B>-logs</B> or <B>-log.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of the chief Malay people in the Philippines. <DD><B> 2. </B>their Indonesian language on which the official language of the Philippines is based. <DD><B> 3. </B>the Austronesian linguistic family that includes the languages of the Philippines. </DL>
<A NAME="tagalong">
<B>tagalong, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> a person who follows along. <BR> <I>Ex. "And me, I can say something too," said the little tagalong who was never to be outdone by her sisters or brother (Harper's).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> that is a tagalong. <BR> <I>Ex. For the first time in recent history, the No. 2 man on each ticket will not be a tagalong candidate (Newsweek).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tagboard">
<B>tagboard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of strong cardboard used for making tags, posters, and book covers. </DL>
<A NAME="tagday">
<B>tag day,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a day when contributions to a certain charity are solicited and contributors are each given a tag to wear. </DL>
<A NAME="tagend">
<B>tag end,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the very end; last part. <BR> <I>Ex. They had been together all season and seemed to resent our coming in on the tag end of it (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a remaining scrap or fragment. <BR> <I>Ex. work pieced together from tag ends of everything (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="taggant">
<B>taggant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chemical substance added to a substance to aid in detection and identification. <BR> <I>Ex. Proposed legislation would require taggants in all explosives (even gunpowder) (Science News).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="tagged">
<B>tagged, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a tag or tags. </DL>
<A NAME="taggers">
<B>taggers, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> iron in very thin sheets, usually coated with tin. </DL>
<A NAME="tagliarini">
<B>tagliarini, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of pasta in the form of flat, ribbonlike strips. </DL>
<A NAME="tagliatelle">
<B>tagliatelle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of pasta similar to but broader than tagliarini. </DL>
<A NAME="tagline">
<B>tag line,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the last part of an actor's speech or of a play; tag. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=punch line.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a catch phrase, as in advertising. <BR> <I>Ex. The author of the article picks out a few pat tag lines: "Unbelievable--but absolutely true! Nothing like it on any screen! A picture you will never forget" (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="taglock">
<B>tag-lock, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tag of wool. </DL>
<A NAME="tagmeme">
<B>tagmeme, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Linguistics.) the smallest meaningful unit of grammatical form. </DL>
<A NAME="tagmemic">
<B>tagmemic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with tagmemes or tagmemics. </DL>
<A NAME="tagmemicist">
<B>tagmemicist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a linguist who specializes in tagmemics. </DL>
<A NAME="tagmemics">
<B>tagmemics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Linguistics.) a method of analyzing language by the ordering of grammatical units into various levels, with the tagmeme as the basic unit. </DL>
<B>tagrag and bobtail,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the riffraff; rabble. </DL>
<A NAME="tagsale">
<B>tag sale,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a private sale of used furniture, appliances, and other household items, each item carrying a price tag. </DL>
<A NAME="tagteam">
<B>tag team,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a team of wrestlers who take turns wrestling with members of another team. </DL>
<A NAME="taha">
<B>taha, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a South African weaverbird, the male of which has yellow and black feathers. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various related birds. </DL>
<A NAME="tahbun">
<B>tahbun, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a wraparound cotton cloth worn by men in Pakistan. </DL>
<A NAME="tahitian">
<B>Tahitian, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the island of Tahiti, its people, their language, or their way of life. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person born or living in Tahiti. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Polynesian language of Tahiti. </DL>
<A NAME="tahr">
<B>tahr, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several beardless wild goats with short curved horns of the Himalayan mountains and southeastern Arabia. Also, <B>tehr.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="tahsildar">
<B>tahsildar</B> or <B>tahseeldar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in India) a revenue officer. </DL>
<A NAME="tai">
<B>Tai, </B>noun, adjective. <B>=Thai.</B></DL>
<A NAME="taiaha">
<B>taiaha, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of club or staff about six feet long, carved at one end and frequently ornamented with feathers, used by Maori chiefs as a badge of office, and sometimes for fighting. </DL>
<A NAME="taic">
<B>Taic, </B>adjective, noun. <B>=Thai.</B></DL>
<A NAME="taichi">
<B>tai chi,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a Chinese method of exercise and self-defense that excludes extreme movements and emphasizes balance, coordination, and effortlessness. </DL>
<A NAME="taichichuan">
<B>tai chi chuan, =tai chi.</B></DL>
<A NAME="taiga">
<B>taiga, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the swampy, coniferous evergreen forest land of subarctic Siberia between the tundra and the steppes. <DD><B> 2. </B>the similar forest land in North America. </DL>
